週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
9/23 |
Introduction to the course and natural history museums
First lecture will be at Google Meet:
https://meet.google.com/wkc-vmrg-xee |
Week 2 |
9/30 |
Natural history from Renaissance Europe to imperial colonization
Readings: Miller et al. (2020). See also Farber (2000), Lubar (2017) |
Week 3 |
10/7 |
Introduction of natural history surveys and museums in Asia and Taiwan
Readings: (張&張 2010) |
Week 4 |
10/14 |
Museum curation: specimens, archives, living collections, and more
Readings: Suarez & Tsutsui (2004); Simmons & Munoz-Saba (2006). See also Ogilvie (2006), 松浦啟一(2016) |
Week 5 |
10/21 |
Visiting NTU Museum of Zoology |
Week 6 |
10/28 |
Scientific illustration in natural history studies
Readings: Porter (1995); Belknap (2019) |
Week 7 |
11/4 |
Visiting Herbarium of NTU (TAI) |
Week 8 |
11/11 |
New uses and forms of natural history museums
Readings: Pleijel et al. (2008); Vol et al. (2011); Lister (2011) |
Week 9 |
11/18 |
Visiting NTU Insect Museum |
Week 10 |
11/25 |
Science communication: how to present to the publics?
Introduction to the NTU museum loan boxes
Readings: Melber & Abraham (2002); Powers et al. (2014). See also Alpert et al. (2004); Schwan et al. (2014); Davies et al. (2015) |
Week 11 |
12/2 |
Visiting NTU Geo-specimen Cottage |
Week 12 |
12/9 |
Design/curate an exhibition for natural history
Readings: Louw & Crowley (2013); Chicone et al. (2013); 胡等(2000) |
Week 13 |
12/16 |
The Code of Ethnics: decolonization, frozen zoo, ethical issues of patents, and beyond
Readings: Hanson (2002); Winker et al. (2010); Bienkowski (2015); ICOM (2013) |
Week 14 |
12/23 |
Oral presentation of final project |
Week 15 |
12/30 |
Oral presentation of final project |
Week 16 |
1/6 |
No class |
Week 17 |
1/13 |
Field trip to off-campus museum (tba) |